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LakeWright.NET carries a SaaS tenant boundary into Databricks
An Apache-2.0 .NET kit that resolves the customer tenant before a request reaches Databricks SQL, Jobs, AI/BI, Genie or Model Serving.
Ivan VydrinReadFabric or Databricks is the wrong question on Azure
Microsoft and Databricks shipped the interop this year. For teams already on Azure the question is which platform holds the tables and which one reads them.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe lock-in argument for leaving Snowflake is over
Snowflake and Databricks now read and write each other's Iceberg tables. If a vendor is still selling you a migration on lock-in, they are selling you 2023.
Sushruth AeluguriReadExport to Data Lake stops on 30 November
Export to Data Lake stops permanently on 30 November 2026. Microsoft names two replacements for Dynamics 365 teams. There is a third answer.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe pipeline was fine. The data was three days old.
Every job green, nothing failing, and the numbers quietly wrong because a source stopped sending. Freshness, volume and schema checks in Unity Catalog.
Sushruth AeluguriReadNobody wanted to run the migration on a Friday
Staging has ten thousand rows, production has forty million, and every migration is a guess. What Lakebase branching does to a team's calendar.
Raja VemuriReadUnity Catalog before the first pipeline
Lakehouse pilots skip grants and then cannot be handed to security. The Lakehouse Launchpad puts Unity Catalog first, with TechFabric Airlift underneath.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe cost dashboard said the workspace was fine
A Databricks cost dashboard shows spend. A two-week Health Check finds the spend that bought nothing, from all-purpose clusters to orphaned schedules.
Ihor SeleznovReadFour thousand objects and nobody would name the exclusions
Warehouse migrations slip because the exclusions were never written down. The Migration Readiness Sprint inventories the estate before anyone picks a date.
Preetham ReddyReadFinance said ninety days. Operations said open account.
Genie fails when two teams mean different things by the same word. Genie Accuracy hardens the semantic layer. TechFabric Experiments keeps the suite running.
Andrew RipleyReadNobody could tell whether the agent was any good
A team shipped an agent in nine days and argued for two months about whether its answers were right. Write down what a good answer is first.
Preetham ReddyReadHow QA Engineers Can Use Databricks Repos for Better Test Automation Workflows
Moving QA off ad-hoc notebooks and onto version-controlled test automation with Databricks Repos. Repo structure, modular tests, and how a team works in one.
Ihor SeleznovReadUsing Application Insights as a Sink for logging in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core has very extensible logging interface. I provides an ILogger interface along with few default implementations that can be used to log data.
TechFabricReadUsing Traefik Reverse Proxy For Securing Microservices On Azure Service Fabric
Securing microservices on Azure Service Fabric with a Traefik reverse proxy. Service Fabric is Microsoft's answer to Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
Preetham ReddyReadSetting Up Production Ready Infrastructure For Microservices
Service Fabric is Microsoft's microservices orchestrator. Service discovery, fault tolerance and containers, set up for production rather than a demo.
Preetham ReddyRead3 Ways To Run Automated Tests On Azure DevOps
Unit tests on the CI build, Selenium UI tests in the release pipeline, and Test Plans on demand. Three approaches on Azure DevOps, with the YAML for each.
Ihor SeleznovReadAI at Scale: Managing Cloud Multi-Tenant AI Infrastructure with Temporal
Scaling, cost and security in a multi-tenant AI application. How TechFabric uses Temporal to orchestrate the infrastructure workflows underneath.
Sergey UstimenkoReadDurable RAG with Temporal and Chainlit
Calling different tools from RAG pipeline can be difficult. This blog post describes how to use temporal for durable execution of RAG tools in Chainlit.
Sergey UstimenkoReadUsing Custom Software Development Data For supply Chain Optimization
Demand for Microsoft Dynamics 365 in supply chain is rising on data analysis and automation in logistics, and on partnerships that keep it consistent.
Leo OliemansReadSupply Chain Optimization: Do I Innovate, Or Do I Wait?
Supply chain optimization rewards the companies that move and punishes the ones that wait. How to tell which position you are actually in.
Leo OliemansReadDynamics 365 CRM: Transforming Your Sales Quote Process
Building a sales quote process in Dynamics 365 CRM. Product catalogue, price lists, approval rules, quote-to-order, and the customizations teams end up needing.
TechFabricReadWhy business can't afford to ignore generative AI: 10 benefits that matter
Ten reasons enterprises adopt generative AI, starting with automating work, improving decisions and producing ideas a team would not have reached.
John BellaudReadThe Effects Of Cypress Component Testing On Your React App
What Cypress component testing does to a React codebase, and how developers and automation engineers working together cuts the cost of fixing things later.
Ihor SeleznovReadTemporal: Airlines Booking Demo Application
The key concepts of Temporal, shown through an airline ticket booking demo. How the framework makes a complex workflow straightforward to build.
TechFabricReadIndustry Turning Point: Large Language Models (LLMs)
What large language models are, how they understand and generate text, and what they change about the way people reach information at work.
John BellaudReadHow Temporal Has Transformed My Development Approach
What changed after adopting Temporal. Less boilerplate, workflow state that survives a restart, and a different way of thinking about long-running work.
Tyler HarkerReadHiring Databricks Specialists: 12 Expert Insights You Need to Get it Right
Twelve things to get right when hiring Databricks specialists in-house, from people who have built the teams and know what they screen for.
John BellaudReadCreate A Wide Configuration For Running Cypress In GitHub Actions!
A Cypress configuration for GitHub Actions that covers several environments, browsers and resolutions, and drops into an existing CI/CD pipeline.
Ihor SeleznovRead